CRMN 2030U Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Control, Anomie, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
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Slide 2: help us explain and understand phenomenon. Slide 3: general sociological theories, criminological theories, interdisciplinary theory. A: each theory has its own strengths and weaknesses. The usefulness of a particular theory is dependant on the research question and context of the research. Slide 5: deviance specialists interested in acts are objective, deviance specialists interested in perceptions and power are subjective. Slide 6: objective positivist; subjective critical, interpretivist theories (process of social constructions) Slide 7: today"s focus will be positivist theories. Slide 8: functionalist theories are the dominant theoretical perspective in sociology. Needed for the smooth functioning of the order. **durkheim believed deviance is functional up to a point (durkheim"s anomie theory) Slide 9: deviance is functional for 4 reasons within society: 1. Increases social solidarity (people join together to fight back against a social group) 2. Moral boundary (seeing what the rules should be and what is considered acceptable or unacceptable) 3.
